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Sunday greetings, everyone - and Happy Mother's Day to everyone who celebrates it! There was a lot of excitement on Friday night when the Aurora Borealis (aka Northern Lights) made a very, very rare ... read more..

I was bogged down in a store aisle sorting through Mother's Day cards and having absolutely no luck. It is another Mother's Day and I was having trouble selecting the perfect Mother's Day card. I am t... read more..

"My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters." - Michelle Obama read more..

Motherhood taught me just how far I can let myself go and still be okay with it.... read more..

Yes, parenthood changes everything. But parenthood also changes with each baby. Here, some of the ways having a second and third child differs from having your first: Your Clothes -1st baby: You begi... read more..

A husband and wife had a human cannonball act in the circus. One day the wife ran off with the lion tamer. The husband was extremely dejected. The strong man asked him what he was going to do. The hu... read more..

Many of us take better care of our cars then we do our mothers and yet we only expect our cars to last 5 or 6 years but we expect our mothers to last for a lifetime. Maybe we need a maintenance manual... read more..

Two rural church deacons who were having a sociable beer in the local tavern when they saw their minister drive by and take a good long look at their pickup trucks parked outside. One deacon ducked d... read more..

Oh look, Chicken Thursday! Remember me?  There have been no Cybersalt Digest mailings for the past week because Grandma Cybersalt and I have been doing some travelling. On April 25th, we bo... read more..

Although my early childhood memories are vague at best, I know that I have always loved riding a bike. Back in the day, children rode three-wheelers until they were maybe 10 or 11. If your folks could... read more..

Paleoanthropology Division Smithsonian Institute 207 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20078 Dear Sir: Thank you for your latest submission to the Institute, labeled "211-D, layer seven, next to th... read more..

After telling the customs agent he had nothing in his bags but clothing, Mark was alarmed when the official decided to open them up and check. In the very first one she opened, cushioned between his ... read more..

Couples who have lived together a long time have their own way of communicating. A woman overheard her aunt and uncle one day: "What are you looking for in that closet?" she asked. "Nothing," he an... read more..

I hate hotel bath towels ... so thick and fluffy I can't even close my suitcase!... read more..

"Calling bigotry an opinion is like calling arsenic a flavor." - Jack Cameron read more..

Sunday greetings, everyone! Grandma Cybersalt and I are away at a conference. We have been blessed in a number of unexpected ways and I am excited to share them with you, but I am typing this on my p... read more..

One man was downing drinks faster than usual when the man on the barstool next to him said, "What's wrong?" The first man said, "I'm drinking to the memory of my wife. She was a saint on earth. She w... read more..

What do you get if you cross an insomniac, an agnostic and a dyslexic? Someone who stays awake all night wondering if there is a dog.... read more..

Officer Roland, near the end of his shift, noticed a woman driving a small pickup truck with a dog sitting on her lap.  Observing that this was an unsafe manner in which to be operating her vehic... read more..

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus read more..

If Cinderella's shoe fit so perfectly, why did it fall off in the first place?... read more..

Oh look, Chicken Thursday! It has been a fairly productive week here at Cybersalt World Headquarters. It's nice to catch up on a bunch of things so that I am only behind on other things: progress is ... read more..

- photo by Susan Page A typical day starts with some quiet reflective time with my Lord. After that comes a hearty breakfast while watching some news coverage. Sometimes this is hard because the state read more..

There were two Catholic boys, Timothy Murphy and Antonio Secola whose lives paralleled each other in amazing ways. In the same year Timothy was born in Ireland, Antonio was born in Italy. Faithfully... read more..

ADDICTION is giving up everything for one thing. RECOVERY is giving up one thing for everything. - unknown... read more..

Every time a bird craps on my car, I eat a plate of wings on the front porch to show them what I'm capable of.... read more..

A rather old minesweeper was cruising a lonely stretch of the South Pacific and was overtaken by a new Australian cruiser. All the US sailors admired the new ship and the Captain sent a blinker-light... read more..

I was being shown round a cheese factory the other day, when I fell into a giant vat of milk by-product. "I'm sorry", I said. "Am I in your whey?"... read more..

I was parked in front of the mall wiping off my car. I had just come from the car wash and was waiting for my wife. Coming my way from across the parking lot was what society would consider a bum. Fro... read more..

Sunday greetings, everyone! Grandma Cybersalt and I are going to be held hostage today. We will be surrendering ourselves to our captors around 2:00pm. We will do this willingly because we are alread... read more..